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Interview no. | U-0683 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.19. Long Civil Rights Movement: Breaking New Ground |
Project description | Interviews, 2011-2012, conducted for the Breaking New Ground: A History of American Farm Owners Since the Civil War project. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and was coordinated by Adrienne Petty (of the City College of New York) and Mark Schultz (of Lewis University in Illinois) with assistance from Jacquelyn Hall. Interviews were conducted by two cohorts of research fellows and centered on African American farmers', landowners', and descendants' political, social, and economic experiences in the American South from the Civil War onward. |
Date | 5 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Singletary, Woody, 1962- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1962 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | Woody Singletary's interview was organized around several topics: family history; growing up with maternal grandfather; moving from King, N.C. to Pinnacle, N.C. where his family was the only black family; renting from a white landlord; his grandfather never owned land and could not make enough money farming; viewing farming as a gift from God. Singletary attended school while he worked in the tobacco field and at a furniture company and was paid $.75 and $1.50. He quit school to work on the tobacco field; he experienced jealousy because of his job; he moved to Winston Salem in 1984; leased land to grow his vegetables; worked for American Express selling his produce; went to an integrated school; descriptions of the community where he lived. |
Citation | Interview with Woody Singletary by Sawde Salifou, 5 June 2011 U-0683, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | U0683_Audio |